I’ve been acquainted with the words and concepts “disinformation” and “misinformation” since late 1978 when I became friends with the assassination researcher Michael Canfield. Canfield and A.J. Weberman’s book “Coup d’ Etat in America” motivated Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez (D-Texas) to found in 1976 the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) to investigate the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King. During their two-year investigation the HSCA hired multiple scientific experts, had access to many files the Warren Commission never saw and took testimony from several witnesses, in public and under oath.
In 1979 they released their findings and report, overturning the conclusion of the Warren Commission. They found there were multiple shooters on November 22, 1963 at Dealey Plaza, that considerable aid was given to James Earl Ray to expedite his escape to England where he was found with $15,000 (about $250,000 in today’s money) and that he may or may not have been the assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King.
The HSCA findings seemed to overturn the official narrative that President Kennedy, and Dr. King were each assassinated by ‘lone gunmen”. Even though these are the latest findings of Congress, government agents still spread the disinformation that these acts were committed by “lone assassins” to this very day.
In the 1970’s the terms “misinformation” and “disinformation” were clearly understood to be lies told by intelligence agencies or their assets for reasons of state, to other governments or the general population. This was the understanding of these terms until just three years ago.
“Misinformation” is a truth mixed with a lie to confuse, misdirect, and mislead those searching for the truth. A perfect example of “misinformation” from the HSCA era would be the CIA planting a photograph of an agent who looked like E. Howard Hunt allegedly measuring the angle of a bullet strike on the curb in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. The CIA planted this as a “newly discovered” photo in a Texas newspaper two weeks before they were required to hand over a huge number of documents to the HSCA. In those documents were memos mentioning Hunt was present at Dealey Plaza when President Kennedy was assassinated and that this would need to be explained in some way, someday. Once the CIA learned the fact that one of its agents was in Dealey Plaza on November 22nd, and that this would soon be discovered, they quickly offered up the photograph.
The HSCA analyzed the photo, and while the man resembled Hunt, their consultants concluded it wasn’t him. The memos remained unexplained until Hunt’s death on January 23, 2007. On that day, his son, Saint John Hunt posted an audio recording made when Hunt believed he was dying. The tape makes clear Hunt had foreknowledge of the assassination, given him by a more senior CIA agent, and that he was at Dealey Plaza “observing” the assassination. In the recording, Hunt also claims many other CIA agents were present.
So, the truth is E. Howard Hunt was in Dealey Plaza and he was involved in the CIA/intelligence community plot to assassinate President Kennedy, at least to the point that he knew ahead of time the President would be assassinated, and he took no steps to stop the assassination and “observed” it.
In 1977, Canfield, and co-author, A.J. Weberman were sued for libel by Hunt for claiming he was an observer and leader of one of the three or more teams of assassins at Dealey Plaza. Hunt claimed he was eating at a Chinese restaurant in Washington D.C. at the time, but the problem with that alibi was the restaurant had closed in late 1960. Hunt’s defamation lawsuit made the book radioactive to distributors and the publisher. The case dragged on four years until the book was destroyed and forgotten. As Congressman Gonzalez often said, “Truth will out.” Eventually, E. Howard Hunt told us the truth.
Disinformation is different. Disinformation is “information” that looks real and official and is 100% false. Like misinformation, its designed to mislead other governments or the public.
Everything the House Intelligence Committee (HIC) Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) said in public regarding “Russiagate”, the accusation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, was pure unadulterated disinformation. In the last month, it’s come out in John Durham’s pleading papers that both the CIA and the FBI cyber divisions investigated the documentation of an alleged collusion by Donald Trump with the Russians to steal the 2016 Presidential elections. Both the FBI and the CIA found the so-called documentation of emails between the Russians and Trump to have been 100% generated on Michael Sussman’s computer. Sussman was Hilary Clinton’s former campaign lawyer. Adam Schiff as Committee Chair, and his staff, had access to these reports and these reports were read by other HIC members, and before public hearings began. Using his official position as the Chair of the committee, Adam Schiff proclaimed he had seen “incontrovertible” evidence of a Trump-Russia collusion when in fact he knew evidence was not only not incontrovertible, but fraudulent.
The alleged meetings that allegedly took place in Eastern Europe between Trump or members of his campaign were proven to have never occurred, and that Trump or members of his staff were in the U.S. on the days and times those meetings were to have occurred.
It was all untrue. It was all a lie. Everyone on the HIC knew it was all disinformation, yet the Committee and the intelligence community colluded to get it accepted as truth by the public. It was a disinformation campaign designed to cripple the Trump Presidency and render him ineligible for re-election. Why physically assassinate a man and make him a martyr, when he can be socially assassinated and made a goat? The CIA learned that much from November 1963 and June 1968.
The chief beneficiary of “Russiagate” and many other disinformation and misinformation campaigns, President Joe Biden, within hours of Elon Musk announcing a deal to buy Twitter and President Trump posting on his new platform Truth Social, announced the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — a cringy Neo Soviet agency name if there ever was one — will be starting a “Misinformation and Disinformation Governance Board”. Allegedly this board will identify “misinformation” and “disinformation” and notify people that they are spreading same. Biden named of all people Nina Jankowicz to chair this committee. The Orwellian cynicism of these events at this moment literally cannot be over emphasized or over expressed.
The DHS is a part of the Intelligence Community. From its inception twenty years ago in the wake of 911, the DHS has busied itself with disinforming the American public. First it was color-coded terrorist threat levels they later admitted were done to keep the threat of terror top of mind and had little relation to actual threats. Simultaneously, there were the alleged “weapons of mass destruction” and then later were numerous untrue statements about Osama bin Ladin’s whereabouts and capabilities. Like every other group of Deep State spooks, the DHS doesn’t believe the public has a right to know and that everything will be much better if we all remain ignorant. Oddly enough, from time to time they go on record making such claims. Having a board under their leadership to instruct the public what is and is not “misinformation” and “disinformation” would be laughable, were it not for the fact that President Biden has issued an executive order instructing these lying thugs to form such a body and have it “inform” people saying things the Administration doesn’t like that they are spreading “disinformation” and “misinformation”. Eventually, and the writing seems to be on the wall here, “offenders” will be punished somehow. The formation of this board would be bad enough, but generally the appointment of the chair would be someone considered moderate and with a pro free speech record. That’s the kind of Chairperson one would expect if the Biden Administration were even pretending the Board is anything other than an American version of Joseph Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment.
The Biden Administration appointed Nina Jankowicz as Chair of the Misinformation and Disinformation Governance Board, a very attractive 33-year-old woman with a pleasant sounding voice. Jankowicz is a Fellow at the Wilson Institute, a Deep State spook think tank, where she has spent the last several years writing books and advocating for government control of free speech platforms. It’s not strange that a think tank named for Woodrow Wilson would have the destruction of free speech as a goal. President Wilson in the WWI era did much to damage free speech and free assembly, while dressing those privations in a “pro-democracy” shine. It took until 1978, sixty-two years after his administration’s first privations of Liberty, to reverse most of the damage the Wilson Administration did. The Wilson Institute are masters of double-speak. Jankowicz, like much of the Biden Administration was recently a consultant to the government of Ukraine where she helped the Ukrainians fight Russian disinformation by depriving Ukrainians of their rights to free speech, free assembly and a free press, making their country in fact less Democratic than Putin’s Russian hell hole.
The highly privileged Jankowicz is the author of four books demanding an end to free speech and complete monitoring of all internet speech and discourse because freedom of speech makes some people such as herself, uncomfortable. People say mean things and use hurtful naughty words. Sometimes sexist or racist words are used. She believes she has been a victim of psychological trauma because people have commented on her anti freedom posts using what she believes is demeaning sexist language.
As a person who has been politically involved for forty years, I can have no sympathy for her demand to silence free speech. I have been called a bitch, a whore, a faggot, a N word lover, a racist, (and you have to love that I can’t be both) a communist, a fascist, a white ape, a kike, an antisemite, and everything else, but a child of God. All of these were intended to be hurtful to me. None of them were as they all displayed the imbecility of my opponents. I have been threatened with maiming, with death, with the rape and death of my wife, and the local police reacted with a shrug and said, “That’s politics”.
I have had my home workshop subjected to arson and I have been the victim of a politically based expensive lawsuit. I sincerely doubt Jankowicz can honestly state she has suffered more than I for her speech. Yet, I do not want to silence my critics using the power of the State. I believe they silence themselves over time by their evil and their foolishness. I find Jankowicz’s arguments in her books in favor of censorship to be childish and the kind of half-baked utopian thinking that can only ultimately lead to a miserable dystopia for all but her class, the ruling class.
Jankowicz though is worse than a mere juvenile and would be utopian totalitarian. Rather than even appearing to be a neutral person of honor, she is a person who has engaged in massively spreading the disinformation of “Russiagate” and the mis/disinformation that Hunter Biden’s “laptop from Hell”, you know the laptop whose emails seem to show President Biden is an unregistered agent of several foreign hostile nations, is itself “Russian Disinformation”. Although the laptop has been proven to be genuine, she continues to claim that using its contents is an act of “Russian Propaganda” and has repeatedly called for the censorship of the “laptop from Hell” story and de-platforming those who continue to tell this 100% truth. The laptop was Hunter Biden’s, it appears to show him having sex with underage girls and using crack cocaine. The laptop also appears to show Hunter, Hunter’s Uncle Jim Biden and President Joe Biden all involved in financial transactions with various entities owned or controlled by foreign nations. Jankowicz wants to shut down the dissemination of this truth. It’s easy to see why. She was appointed by President Biden, the beneficiary of the most misinformation and disinformation of the last six years, to use the power of the DHS to cover up the manifest crimes of the Biden family against the American Republic and the American People.
As the Warren Commission was a cover-up of the assassination of President Kennedy “for reasons of State” by and for the intelligence community, as Adam Schiff’s “Russiagate” investigation was a carnival barking character assassination of President Trump allowing the intelligence community to execute a bloodless quasi-legal coup ‘d’état against him, because he was seen as a threat. This new Commission of liars and thugs running about threatening citizens with nebulous something for speaking in any way the Biden Administration finds injurious to itself or its goals, the “Disinformation and Misinformation Governance Body” is also a gift to the intelligence community.
Now the intelligence community will manufacture the disinformation and the misinformation as they always have but will label the countering truths as “disinformation’ and misinformation” and threaten all who do not meekly stand in silence. They must do this because their tower of lies is crumbling at their feet. This illusion may only be maintained outside of the light of truth. They believe they must enforce the narrative.
This is a fool’s errand on the part of the intelligence community and the Administration. Congressman Gonzales (D-Texas) was correct. Truth will out.